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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com


CII. HOW A MAN UNABLE TO MOVE HIMSELF.

When they would symbolise a man who for a long time is unable to move himself, but who afterwards moves with his feet, they depict A FROG HAVING ITS HIND FEET; for it is born without feet, but subsequently as it grows acquires its hind feet.


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